Companion Website for “Specimen, Biological Structure, and Spatial Ontologies in Support of a Human Reference Atlas”

Bruce W. Herr II1, Josef Hardi2, Ellen M. Quardokus1, Andreas Bueckle 1*, Lu Chen3, Fusheng Wang3, Anita R. Caron4, David Osumi-Sutherland 4, Mark A. Musen2, Katy Börner1*

  • 1 Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
  • 2 Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
  • 3 Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, 11794, NY, USA
  • 4 EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

* Corresponding authors


Preprint on bioRxiv

CCF.OWL v2.0.1 on NCBI BioPortal Ontology Browser

CCF.OWL v2.0.1 on EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) Ontology Browser

We welcome others to join our effort in constructing a user-friendly and useful HRA. Please sign up for the ASCT+B Working Group at https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpaBhIr8XfdiNRH to receive updates and meeting invites.


Exemplary Queries for CCF.OWL v2.0.1

We provide standard queries to a static version of the CCF API which includes CCF.OWL v2.0.1 and experimental data by five consortia made available as LOD. Note that counts for experimental data tissue blocks will be lower as in the paper because the database was compiled on June 23, 2022 and the paper reports data available on August 25, 2022. You can access the full data story here.

Description Count Run Query
Number of RDF Triples in CCF.OWL v2.0.1 266,576 Query
Human Reference Atlas Data
Biological structure
Number of Anatomical Structures 2,619 Query
Number of Anatomical Structures mapped to Uberon 400 Query
Number of Cell Types 736 Query
Number of Cell Types with unmapped IDs 348 Query
Number of LMHA Cell Types 5 Query
Number of Biomarkers 1,540 Query
Number of Biomarkers with HGNC IDs 1,093 Query
Number of Biomarkers with unmapped IDs 447 Query
Number of AS-AS Links 3,116 Query
Number of AS-CT Links 10,331 Query
Number of CT-B Links 3,572 Query
Spatial
Reference Organ Count 53 Query
3D Reference Organ AS Count 1,190 Query
Number of Landmarks 337 Query
Experimental Data
Specimen
Donor Count 137 Query
Tissue Block Count 359 Query
Section Count 561 Query
Consortium Count 5 Query
Spatial
RUI Location Count 350 Query

Video Tutorials: Registration User Interface (RUI) and Exploration User Interface (EUI)

The RUI and EUI allow the 3D registration and subsequent exploration of tissue blocks in relation to the HRA (v1.2) reference organs. Video Tutorial 1 and a standard operating procedure ("Using the CCF Registration User Interface") illustrate their usage. Video Tutorial 2 shows how to validate a RUI location with the EUI.

Video Tutorial 1: RUI v3.0 Tutorial (watch on YouTube)


Video Tutorial 2: How to double-check a RUI registration with the EUI (watch on YouTube)


Video Demo: Organ VR Gallery

The CCF Organ VR Gallery is an immersive application that allows users to view, explore, and analyze 3D reference organs, anatomical structures, and cell types, in an integrated virtual reality (VR) environment. More information about this project can be found be found on the CCF Organ VR Gallery on the CCF Portal. A video demo is available below.

Video Demo: Features of the CCF Organ VR Gallery v0.5 (watch on YouTube)